Games like When the Darkness comes on PC
Closest overall match: Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Before Your Eyes at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft at about 1 hours.
We compared When the Darkness comes against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Walking Simulator, Horror and First-Person.
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63%
1. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Shares Walking Simulator, Dark, Horror, First-Person and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 92%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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63%
2. Off-Peak
Shares Walking Simulator, Horror, Partial Controller Support, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 97%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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62%
3. Mouthwashing
Shares Narrative, Walking Simulator, Dark, Horror and First-Person and 2 more tags; rated 0.7 higher.
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 94%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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62%
4. Scanner Sombre
Shares Walking Simulator, Horror, Partial Controller Support and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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61%
5. Lightmatter
Shares Dark, First-Person and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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61%
6. Fingerbones
Shares Walking Simulator, Dark, Horror, First-Person and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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61%
7. Serena
Shares Walking Simulator, Dark, Horror, First-Person and Singleplayer; rated 1.2 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 72%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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60%
8. The Beginner's Guide
Shares Walking Simulator, Dark, Horror, First-Person and Partial Controller Support and 1 more tags; rated 0.9 higher.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 96%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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60%
9. Still There
Shares Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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60%
10. Before Your Eyes
Shares Narrative, Walking Simulator, First-Person, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 90%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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60%
11. Kairo
Shares Walking Simulator, Horror, First-Person, Partial Controller Support and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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60%
12. NaissanceE
Shares Walking Simulator, Horror, First-Person and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like When the Darkness comes on PC?
On our similarity model, Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft is the closest match to When the Darkness comes on PC — shares Walking Simulator, Dark, Horror, First-Person and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
Which game like When the Darkness comes is rated highest?
Before Your Eyes holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 110 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against When the Darkness comes on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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